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mandeepj
on Dec 26, 2020
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I reverse engineered Google Docs to play back any ...
can someone please throw a light on the framework used behind the UI of Google docs or sheets? Is it opensource?
manigandham
on Dec 26, 2020
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It's Google's proprietary code. Google Docs is too unique, complex and valuable to use any typical opensource UI framework.
applecrazy
on Dec 26, 2020
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Actually, Google Docs was (and possibly still is) built on Google Web Toolkit (
http://www.gwtproject.org/
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mandeepj
on Dec 27, 2020
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I believe other apps like Microsoft office 365 word, Airtable, Quip, Smartsheet etc. - are very similar in frontend architecture to Google Sheets. So, I was looking if there's a common engine or approach to handle UI
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